Re: [PATCH 4.14 00/53] 4.14.331-rc2 review

From: Ilpo Järvinen
Date: Tue Nov 28 2023 - 08:11:04 EST


On Mon, 27 Nov 2023, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.331 release.
> > There are 53 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.

> > Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > RDMA/hfi1: Use FIELD_GET() to extract Link Width
>
> This is a good cleanup, but not a bugfix.
>
> > Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > atm: iphase: Do PCI error checks on own line
>
> Just a cleanup, not sure why it was picked for stable.

Just an additional bit of information, there have been quite many cleanups
from me which have recently gotten the stable notification for some
mysterious reason. When I had tens of them in my inbox and for various
kernel versions, I immediately stopped caring to stop it from happening.

AFAIK, I've not marked those for stable inclusion so I've no idea what
got them included.


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i.